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Adding documentation regarding the importance of a single time source…
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Adding link to node status docs as raised in issue #111
Jul 15, 2015
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion doc/manual-conflicts.sgml
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The most common conflicts are row conflicts where two operations affect a
row with the same key in ways they could not do on a single node. &bdr; can
detect most of those and apply last-update-wins conflict handling or invoke
a user-defined conflict handler.
a user-defined conflict handler. For the time based conflict handlers to
function correctly all nodes in the cluster must share the same time source.
If you have a conflict when the time on two nodes is out of sync the conflict
may never be able to resolved because the last update time will never match
even after the handler has run. This will manifest itself as row updates only
syncing in one direction.
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions doc/manual-node-management.sgml
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See also: <xref linkend="functions-node-mgmt">, <xref linkend="command-bdr-init-copy">.
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To view the status of the cluster then interrogate this table:- <xref linkend="bdr.bdr_nodes">.
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<sect2 id="node-management-joining-bdr" xreflabel="Joining or creating a BDR node">
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